PA CME Disclosures & Objectives

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate an increase in your knowledge of clinical medicine.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of clinical information as it applies to the care of your patients.
• Demonstrate an improvement in your ability to make decisions that provide safe and effective medical care.
• Recognize areas of personal strength and areas for growth in clinical knowledge.

Intended Audience

Physician assistants and physician assistant students who are seeking to maintain and augment their knowledge and/or who are preparing for their initial board certification or recertification.

AAPA Self-Assessment CME Credit

This activity has been reviewed by the AAPA Review Panel and is compliant with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 225 AAPA Category 1 Self-Assessment CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. Approval is valid from 6/1/2023 to 6/1/2024. AAPA reference number: 209296.

For NCCPA certification maintenance ONLY: NCCPA will now apply an additional 50 percent weighting when these self-assessment credits are logged for NCCPA certification maintenance purposes. PAs should log up to a maximum of 225 AAPA Category 1 Self-Assessment CME credits, as the additional weighting will be automatically applied by NCCPA.

You will receive one credit for every ten questions you answer correctly.

CME Disclosure

All persons who may impact the content of a CME activity, including faculty and planners, are required to fully disclose current and recent financial relationships with commercial interests. A conflict of interest may be considered to exist if such a person has financial relationships with the grantor or any non-eligible entities (commercial interests) that may have a direct impact on the content of the program. Financial relationship is defined as being a shareholder, consultant, grant recipient, research participant, employee, and/or recipient of other financial or material support. Recent is defined as within the past 24 months.

MMS Disclosure Policy

The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and must ensure independence, balance, and scientific rigor in its accredited continuing education activities.

All individuals in control of the content for an MMS accredited continuing education activity must disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies for the previous 24 months.

Individual Disclosures

Below are all relevant financial relationships reported by NEJM Knowledge+ contributors during the past 3 years.

Vaneeta Bamba, MD   Ethan Brown, MD   Steven Chen, MD   Ezra M. Cohen, MD   Nathan Connell, MD   Glenn J. Hanna, MD   Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD   Brian C. Healy, MD   Koyal Jain, MD, MPH   Mihir M. Kamdar, MD   Ruslan Korets, MD   Lekha M. Rao, MD   Leigh C. Reardon, MD   Eric Roeland, MD   Deborah R. Stein, MD   Mitchell Strominger, MD   Joji Suzuki, MD   Raymond Y. Wang, MD   Sharmeel K. Wasan, MD

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the beginning of this activity in accordance with ACCME and MMS policies. All other individuals in control of the content have reported no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for this activity. The complete list of contributors can be found here.

Disclosure of Commercial Support

No commercial support was received for this activity.

Medium or Combination of Media Used

This is an adaptive self-assessment tool designed to adjust to the learner’s strengths and areas for growth, and can be accessed from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Learners choose the subspecialty area and are presented with a sequence of questions. After each question is answered, the user is provided with the key learning point, detailed feedback that discusses the correct answer as well as each of the wrong answers, and citations to relevant articles.

Estimated Time to Complete the Educational Activity

One hour for every 10 questions answered correctly.

Bibliography

Each clinical vignette includes citations and references.

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